Tuesday, May 1, 2018

I have a card to share today featuring a new set from The Stamps of Life:

This stamp set is from a kit that Stephanie Barnard has created for a live online class that will be on May 15th! This is the first time The Stamps of Life has done a class in this format so it is very exciting.

Thursday, April 26, 2018

On Instagram today, The Stamps of Life challenged us to create a card using Flamingo2stamp.

I began by watercoloring the background of the "beach." I used my Daniel Smith sample sheets to create this. These samples are real watercolor paint, just a dab of them so you can see what colors you might like. They are very high quality and I enjoyed working on my watercolor skills!!

I decided to stamp and watercolor the flamingos using a real life image as reference. I didn't realize they had such ornate feathers.

Lastly, I stamped the sentiment and die cut it on a tag. I tied a small Guava ribbon on the end.

I stamped the images with Distress ink because you can watercolor with it. While that was drying, I added a watercolor wash on another piece of paper using Tumbled Glass Distress ink. It is a very light blue. I was hoping to add some of the texture shown in the photo.

I glued the top piece down and added it all to a Aqua Mist card base. The last thing was to add the sentiment. I decided to use the ornament tag (an absolute favorite of mine) also cut in Aqua Mist and I really wanted gold so I die cut that using on of the big word dies (another favorite!)

A little Hibicus Burst was tied on top and it was popped up with foam dots.

Sunday, April 22, 2018

I have to admit that this was really hard for me! It took me forever to come up with anything.

I did know that I wanted to use this large word die from Sizzix/Stephanie Barnard. It actually says Happy Birthday but again it is really big so I wanted to use just Happy.

I die cut the word in white and created the first one using distress stains and embossing powder. I decided not to blend the letter like Lexi did because I couldn't get it the way I wanted. I used Brushed off to create the Graffiti "look" - I was hoping for white paint dripping down the top. I am not sure I accomplished it, but I definitely tried!

In this photo you can see the rejected words:

Even though this was challenging, I did enjoy playing with some inks!!

After choosing one, I decided to back it with a black shadow of the word to act as an outline.

I embossed Stars onto the white paper because it was a little plain but I didn't want to overpower the sentiment. I ran the paper through 3 times placing the clusters of Small Sketched Stars in random spots.

This was added to black card stock:

The next step was embossing the Pure Poppy card stock base:

I chose lines to add some more texture and interest:

Here is a close up shot of the finished card. I embossed Birthday in white on black card stock.

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